Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree and at least 30 credits in sustainable development at Master's level. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• show in-depth knowledge within a chosen problem within the field of sustainable development
• in a creative way delimit a scientific problem, plan a scientific study, choose appropriate methods, carry out the study, interpret and evaluate the results and, if applicable, generate falsifiable a hypotheses to explain the observations all within given time frames
• search and in a critical way interpret, apply, and compile relevant scientific literature with academically relevant connections to the chosen issue
• present the results in a clearly structured written report in correct language and for different target groups both in scientific and in popular form
• give opposition with focus on constructive criticism on other theses

Content

An independent project is carried out, where the knowledge from earlier completed courses are applied on a suitable chosen issue. The project is guided by a supervisor with professional connection to ongoing projects in research or development with relevance for the chosen question.

Instruction

The supervision is adapted individually dependent on project layout and planning.

Assessment

Oral and written presentation of the degree project is required. The written presentation should consist of a scientific report, a popular summary in Swedish or English as well as a scientific summary in English. The student must also act as opponent on another degree project within same main area.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.

Other directives

The report must be properly registered in the database DIVA before the final course grade can be registered